‘Facts of Life’ Star in New ‘Survivor’ Cast
Who says acting careers are being hurt by reality shows? Lisa Whelchel, who played the peppy Blair Warner on “The Facts of Life” in the 1980s, is back on TV…
Who says acting careers are being hurt by reality shows? Lisa Whelchel, who played the peppy Blair Warner on “The Facts of Life” in the 1980s, is back on TV…
MTV hasn’t had any better luck adapting British hit series than network television has. Their version of “Skins” sank like a stone. Now here comes their version of another raunchy…
BBC America has a long history of bringing over the best of British television, in comedy or drama. So it’s a bit of a disappointment that their first original American…
Larry King was such a fixture on CNN, he almost left a suspenders-wearing shadow when he left with considerable fanfare in 2010. Piers Morgan hasn’t come close to matching his…
Nine Nobel Peace laureates know warmongering when they see it, so they sent a letter to NBC this week, urging it to cancel its new reality series “Stars Earn Stripes,”…
It was surprising enough that Paul Schneider, the former Mark Brendanawicz on “Parks and Recreation,” popped up this week on “Newsroom” as the hand-picked magazine profile writer of Will McAvoy…
Most reality shows are just dumb but “Stars Earn Stripes” (NBC, 8 p.m.) is almost maliciously bad, built on deceptive premises blown up to a jingoistic, action film level with…
NBC has already altered Olympic reality enough to make you think beach volleyball is a much greater sport than dozens of others (dominated by foreigners) who never made their prime…
One of my favorite series this summer, readers will know, is the oddball reality series from National Geographic, “American Colony: Meet the Huttterites.” The unusual, German-speaking sect of Protestants in…
Russell Brand’s stab at nearly-live topical monologue on late night cable sort of went off the rails as he floundered for topics and relevance (it will be retooled by the…